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The life of famed East End luminary Lenny McLean gets a touching, personal treatment in The Guv’nor. Famous (and infamous) as a bareknuckle boxer, bouncer, enforcer, and doorman from the late ‘60s, McLean’s journey from unlicensed fighter to best-selling author and star of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is also the story of a working class man from Hoxton weathering the changing decades before his untimely death in 1998. Director Paul Van Carter follows his son Jamie as he explores his father’s story, from troubled upbringing to stardom, on the way meeting a variety of East London characters to director Guy Richie. What emerges is a picture of a complex, troubled and driven family man.

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Excellent.

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Mark Ansell
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2017-01-13
I really enjoyed this documentary, everyone in Britain and around the world should watch this,it's a story that needed to be told on film.Respect to his son for showing the softer side of Britains hardest man.R.I.P.

Enjoyable watch

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DRM5515
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2016-11-02
I read 'The Guv'nor' book many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The big man certainly lived an interesting life. Like the book, this documentary skips around the more sinister side of his character. However, Jamie still does a very good job with the narrative throughout. Most definitely worth a watch.

The Guv'nor

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Julian Howard
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2016-10-14
Really enjoyed the film with lots of nice behind the scenes bits. I just wanted a bit more fight footage and a few more peoples stories. Maybe in an extended limited edition?

Book is better

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comino72
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2016-10-12
Interesting enough film but sadly lacking enough views from people that actually new him well.
The film centres around his sons views and what his son understood from stories he'd heard.
Obviously the son idealised his dad and therefore would only speak of the stories in a positive light but what ever way you look at it, Lenny was an angry man , who, if crossed would be an incredibly nasty man.
Unfortunately this film doesn't do anything to acknowledge the bad acts as bad acts but instead kind of laugh them off.
' he bit someone's through out and killed him, but that was Leon' followed by laughter just seem out of place for me.